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Staying in Touch (George Mathews, 02-Aug, 2007) |
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Many of us left ISB after Xth and XIIth and others left earlier. In those early days, we'd stay in touch with our friends writing snail mail to each other.
As we grew older and found new friends, the exchanges became slower as new roots and new friends claimed a portion of our bandwidths. We found jobs, some of us got hitched, had kids, life got busy and the contacts became an ocassional trickle. With the advent and easy availability of the internet, we sought each other out again over the once hazy World Wide Web and stayed in touch with the ocassional email or maybe a phonecall when we'd exchange birthday greetings. Over the last few months things started to change slowly as we sought to re-connect with a past that
was still remembered very fondly.
It's come to such an exciting pass in the past few days that my Inbox was flooded with over a 100 emails from the ISB Class Of 90 group. I normally would've reacted with vengeance and disdain to such an overload of emails and in one fell swoop would've trashed the whole lot. But here I am, going through each with a smile, trying to remember faces, names and incidents from an age that seems so distant and yet within reach!
They say you lose 1000's of brain cells every day after the age of twenty. In my case, it's probably in the 100's of 1000's a day. The cobwebs that've collected over the years are hard to clear. Yet a ray of light shines through each time a portion is cleared and brings a smile as the incidents from those Wonder years come crashing through.
Here's hoping that the contact we've established after all these years is here to stay. And here's hoping that we can get together again in that wonderful land where we've established so many friendships and memories and where a part of our hearts will always belong! :-)
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